Gothic Horror House?
No, this is not Nightmare on Elm Street. It's actually 878 Main Street, on Danville, VA.'s Millionaire's Row. Danville is full of Victorian and Edwardian architecture built by wealthy merchants and entrepreneurs who had made it rich in this tobacco town on Virginia's southern border.
Charles M Sublett had this High Victorian Gothic mansion built for his wife Jennie in 1874. He died two years later, leaving his widow a very rich woman based on the considerable wealth he had amassed after the American Civil War. Jennie remarried, to E Howe Miller; his son, and then grandson, lived on in the house into the 1990s.
Pointed arched windows and other Gothic details emphasise the mediaeval-type massing of this fully-developed Gothic mansion. Its central tower terminates in a wedge-like Chateauesque roof. Lacy cast-iron porches are reminiscent of work by Richmond's famous foundry, Tredegar.
Details from the Danville Victorian Walking Tour pamphlet.
Gothic Horror House?
No, this is not Nightmare on Elm Street. It's actually 878 Main Street, on Danville, VA.'s Millionaire's Row. Danville is full of Victorian and Edwardian architecture built by wealthy merchants and entrepreneurs who had made it rich in this tobacco town on Virginia's southern border.
Charles M Sublett had this High Victorian Gothic mansion built for his wife Jennie in 1874. He died two years later, leaving his widow a very rich woman based on the considerable wealth he had amassed after the American Civil War. Jennie remarried, to E Howe Miller; his son, and then grandson, lived on in the house into the 1990s.
Pointed arched windows and other Gothic details emphasise the mediaeval-type massing of this fully-developed Gothic mansion. Its central tower terminates in a wedge-like Chateauesque roof. Lacy cast-iron porches are reminiscent of work by Richmond's famous foundry, Tredegar.
Details from the Danville Victorian Walking Tour pamphlet.